The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)Putnam, George Haven
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The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)
Putnam, George Haven
Freedom of the press; Liberty of conscience; Prohibited books
This general prohibition was incorporated by Benedict XIV in the
_Decreta Generalia_, ii., 61, with the addition of the following
classes: all books written in support of the conclusions presented in
the writings of Quesnel; all appeals from the authority of the Bull
to a general council; all resolutions and decisions coming from the
theological faculties or individual theologians or academies, in which
were presented any criticisms of the papal authority or of the policy
indicated in the Bull; all acts, decrees, letters, declarations and
statements of any kind in which, under the pretence of the explanation
of doctrines or of the analysis of the relations between the authority
of the pope and that of civil government, or under any pretence
whatsoever, the validity and conclusive authority of the Bull were in
any way brought into question. This prohibition, as worded, was made to
apply not only to writings at that time in existence but to any future
writings of the character specified.
In the Spanish Index of 1747, the Bull _Unigenitus_ is printed in full,
and all the writings of Quesnel are prohibited. The Spanish Index
contains, however, but a small portion of the long series of works
produced by the controversy which had been condemned in Rome. The
Spanish compilers added the titles of some few works which had escaped
the attention of the Roman Inquisition.
The Bull bearing the title _Unigenitus Dei Filius_ was signed by the
Pope (Innocent XII) on the 8th of September, 1713. It begins with the
statement that a work had been brought into print in Paris in 1699,
which it had been found necessary to condemn.
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